Welding torch holder



Feb. 16, 1932. v.y E. SPRUSE 1,845,207

WELDING TORCH HLDER Filed Jan. 2U. i931 Patented Feb. 16, 1932 UNTED STATES `illeciti"r-flairrrfol-*FICE VERNER E. sPRoUsE, or INDIAN/Arctis, INDIANA WELDING Tortona-Immun,

Application mea January 2o,"13`1`. Serin No. `510,018.

or is knocked off to its injury, or is not conveniently at hand when again needed.

The obj ect of this invention is to provlde a holder for the welding torch which will be conveniently located and in which the torch nozzle may be easily and quickly placed and where it will be securely held and from which it may be easily removed when again wanted for use.

A further object is to provide a torch holder which will be durable and also inexpensive to manufacture and to keep in repair.

I accomplish the above and other objects which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of my torch holder in use and as supportedby attachment to a work bench;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of my torch holder as attached to the operating lever of an automatic gas cut oft1 of known construction; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the rocking cam which locks the torch in the torch holder.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the'drawings.V

member 7, parallel with standard 6 and ofthe same size and general outline. The lower end of the member 7 is bent inwardly into contactwith the standard 6 in a manner to4 space the members 6 and 7 properly apart. v

The Atwo members 6 and 7 form a'fhousing and a support for a cam plate 8. lThe camy 8 is assembled between the members 6 and on a pivot9fon which it is.` free to rock.- Thev cam, as best seen in Fig. 3, has a substantially V-shapeV notch entering from its upper` edge. One-side 10 of this notch is concave and the' opposite sidell is convex. The members 6` and7 ,between which the cam 8 is pivoted are provided with a V-shape notch 12 extending downwardly. from their top edges, which the cam 8 crosses in the manner shown in Fig. 2.

The standard 7 has a rearwardly extended ear 13, andthe cam 8 has a similarly extended ear14.rv A spirallywound spring 15 connects the two'earsfin a-manner to .normally dra-w the cam toward the ear 13 until stopped by contact of the cam-ear 14 with a suitably formed edge ofhousing member? 7 .A

- In the modification shown in Fig. 2 the base- 4'vis omitted and the front Amember 6 is bolted to an appropriately formed extension 15of the operating lever `16 of an automatic gas out `off 17 so the weight4 of the welding torch held in my attachment will automatically cut olf the supply of gasto the torch.

- The operation of my invention as a torchholder ris fthe same in either Figs. lor 2, and is as follows: Assuming the cam 8 to be in the'normaly position shown in full lines in Fig. 2,1thetorch18, which generally has an enlarged nozzle 19connected by a bent neck 20,1 is placed when the workman desires to temporarilyvdisposed of the torchwith the neck 20 contactingthe convex edge l1 ofthe cam.-y The weightof the torchI and its gas 'supply4 pipe'V is generally sufcientvto move that part of the cam Aunder"itdownwardly, rocking the cam on its pivot 9. .This movement ofthe cam continuesA until itis arrested by the Contact ofthe neck `20with the bottomof the 'notches 12 in the housing 6, 7. The cam will then be rocked to the position shown by dotted lines in `'2f-with Ytheconca-ve edge 10 resting upon the torch neck 20. The weight of the torch will be sulicient to hold the cam in this position locking the torch against removal except by a lifting forceV suiicient to take its pressure off of the edge 11 of the cam, whereupon the cam will be rocked to its normal position with its ear 14 against the edge of housing member 7 by the pull of the spring 15. l

The torch may have a bent neck without the nozzle 19 and will operate the cam as above describedand be retained in the holder in a practical way.

My invention is capable of variation in 'i structural detail, as inthe size -andshape 'of-i the cam and of the housing materialandin other respects without departing from the spirit thereof and I therefore donot desire to be limited to the form shown nor any more thanrisrequired by the appended claims...

I claim:

' 1. In a weldingA torch holder; a vhousing having .an indent downwardly from anupper edgeTin combinationwith a plate pivoted ,in thehousingsaid-plate having a tapering slotv extendingY inwardly from anedge of the plate and converging remote from theindentinthe housing in they normal position .of the. plate, one. edge of the slot being .concave and the otheredge longer and con-veX,v and `means for holding the plate ina normal `positionwith the part adjacent the convex. edge of theslot crossingthe indent in the housingwhereby the lpressure of la vwelding torchplaced on said convex edge` willrockthe plate and lock the-,torch in the bottomof the slot atthebot-z tom of the indent in the housing.A f Y 2. .s In a weldingtorch holder,r a housing having v a tapering Vlindent extending ,idownf wardly from its top edge', in combination with a platepivoted inthe housing;,sai.d plate having lan inwardly taperinggcam-slot accessible through the indentone edge of which .is-confV cave and the other vedge convex `the-'convex edgel beinglonger than Vthe concave edge'v whereby the pressure'o a welding torch eX-VY erted throughfthe indent on 'the' cam-slot willA rockthe plate andk lockrthe -torch;in:the bottom-` of the slot .at the bottomof the indent.

'3. In-awelding torch lholder,4 aAhousing having -atapering ,indent extending-:downwardly from its top `edge5 in combination with av plate pivoted in the housing said plate hav*-V ingaan inwardly tapering cam-:slot laccessible through "the indent-one edge-of which iscone:

cave and the other edge convex 'wherebyfth'ex pressure-of a welding torch exerted through theindent onthe cam-slot will rock theplate and lock the torch in the indent, anda spring normally `returningthe .cam plate to aposition of release ofthetorch .withj the bottom otA the slot remote from the indent ofthe plate. Y. f e Y n In] testimony whereofI 'affix imy signature'.

VERNER E. SPROUSE. 

